Ancient sovereigns liked this trope; see also God-Emperor for those examples. See also One-Winged Angel, Smug Super and Dark Messiah. Also see Like a God to Me, which is when a character declares someone else godlike but only out of flattery, not as a statement of serious worship. Not to be confused with God Guise, where a character merely pretends to be a god as part of a con. A Nietzsche Wannabe may also have megalomaniacal delusions and believe himself to be immortal, but never claims to be a god and in fact insists that gods don't exist.

Note that this trope requires a self-proclamation of godhood,not just sheer cockiness and/or overconfidence.note The actual words "I am a god" are an easy indicator, but not absolutely necessary. Speaking of oneself in more subtly deific terms is quite sufficient. Possessing or gaining godlike powers by itself doesn’t count, nor is it a requirement to possess such powers to qualify for this trope. Usually being a Physical God and declaring oneself to be a God isn't this trope unless the physical gods in the setting are not omnipotent while this particular one believes it is omnipotent.

The technical term for this is suitheism (when one believes they are a god, but admits others exist) or autotheism (when they believe they are divine and worship themselves).

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